Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share stories of a War in Heaven: Satan, jealous at the love God has for humanity, leads an army of angels in rebellion, but is defeated and cast down to Hell. The story is so influential that, thousands of years after it entered the Tanakh, it inspired Dante’s Inferno and...

I wasn’t sure what comm to post this in.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Checks out. I wrote a paper in college for a religions class about the evolution of Satan from a simply adversarial figure in the old testament into a great universal evil in the new, as a tributable to the Essene cult and their being influenced by Zoroastrianism.